Lately we have been thinking about how many amazing tools there are on GGE, and how much functionality there is. But we realized not all of it is immediately obvious. So we have decided to start handing out the lessons so that you might be able to learn some things that you perhaps didn’t know were possible on the site. Consider this a mini-tutorial. If, after you have read one of these tips, you still have questions, just respond in the comments and we will try and clarify. So here we go with the very first: How to have a feed showing only the friends you want it to.

Most people, I hope, have seen the feed in their account section. This feed lists everything you could possibly want to know about what is happening on the site. But what if you just want to know what certain people are doing? That is what the “My Friends” Module in the My Account page is for. You can add an ultra specific feed in just a few steps.

Step 1: Click on the my account tab and then on the right sidebar click “customize.” You should see a screen similar to that of editing a profile. This is where you can set up what you see when you click the my account tab. The same module system applies and you can move and edit just about everything.

Step 2: On the right sidebar in the “add a module” box, click “Friends” and then click “Add!.” This will place your new module in the inactive modules space, ready for editing.

Step 3: Click the edit icon towards the right hand side of the My Friends Module bar. you should then see the editing page that looks like this:

Step 4: Now you can change the title of this module, select which tags you would like to see, and select the number of items to display. The important part of this step is the tag selection. When you accept or invite someone as a friend you can choose preset tags such as “good profile” and “friend monger,” but you can also add your own tags from the “My Friends” page. So you might tag all of the people you went to school with as “school friends.” This tag could then be selected from the dropdown box, and you would only see the activity of your friends from school.

Step 5: Click “save changes” and then click and drag the inactive module up to the active modules and you are done. Simple

This feed is actually really useful. The main feed tells you all the information you could ever want to know. The friends module will tell you exactly what you want to know. You can add as many of these modules as you like. You could even have one feed for every single friend you have I suppose. So, that’s it, nice and simple. Enjoy!